Abasbeyli :: ARMENIAN LOCATIONS

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Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Ghazakh (District) / Abasbeyli (Village)

Location

The village is situated on the left bank of the river Voskepar (Joghas), 14 kilometres west of the district centre, at an altitude of 560 to 580 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 294.

Historical Introduction
19 c․

In the late 19th century, some stock-breeding tribes which had just changed to a sedentary life founded the present-day Turkish settlement in the site of a derelict Armenian village.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 294.

The available statistical data on the number of the local population represent the following picture:

Dates	Turkish Houses	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1886	23	115		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 144-145; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 294.
1914		127		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 82; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 294.